I was more thinking of changing the view scroll and zoom so the user sees the image in a suitable size.
Interesting lateral solution although it is possible it could be the beginning of an out of control main window. But lets not be afraid of change.
I have my own suggestion to solve this problem: a new UI element on the main window. It would be a numeric box with an up down control. It would specify the duration of any still images that get dropped onto the timeline (according to the units specified in time format). The first time a still image is dropped a highlight could go there to draw the users attention.
Where would it fit? At 1280 pixels wide my main window still has spare room at the bottom right. A UI element could go between the automation range and type and the selection range boxes. I think a better idea would be to start to add more options to the menu with audio fade: Audio Fade, Video Fade, Zoom, X, Y, Still Image Duration (the right hand range finder would dissappear because this is single value not a range), What else? I'm sure there are a few other numeric value items that would be good to access from here. The benefit is that them there is room to specify the function of the gui element in words.
The 'highlight' when a still image is dropped on the timeline would include also changing the Audio Fade menu to the 'Still Image Duration' item. This list and the range finder on the bottom need to be linked more clearly in the gui - A thin frame joining them together perhaps. The frame could then flash once and the menu item change whenever one the relevant elements is manipulated (eg add or move an audio or video control point).
So if we incorporated this new item into the Audio/Video Fade menu then there is still extra space at the bottom. A really good use for this space would be a selection list for Time Format. I would switch formats a lot more often during a project if I didn't need to enter the preferences menu. But then I believe there is a keyboard shortcut to switch formats - but I could never remember that one.
These suggestions may be a little immature - but I thought I would make them anyway. It is at least possible that this and other outstanding issues may be solvable through normal gui design and without radical changes in window behavior.
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